Macbeth Act 5 Scene 8 The basic things that happen in my scene are :
• In the beginning of this scene, Macbeth and Macduff meets.
• Macbeth cannot be killed by a human being, but Macduff can because he was "untimely ripped" from his mother's womb.
• Macbeth and Macduff fights.
• Then Malcom is with Siward and Ross.
• They talk about Siward's sons' death. He died in a noble way, and it makes Siward feel proud of his son.
• Macduff reenters with Macbeth's head. He gives a little speech for Malcom and everyone hails the new king.
• The scene and play ends with Malcom's speech. What do you think are the key purposes of your scene?
I think that the key purpose of this scene is to bring this Scottish play to an end. In this scene, everything were solved by both main-characters meeting up and fighting. The conclusion came to an end by Macbeth's death. Furthermore, this gives a moral to the reader. Such greed and foolishness brings collapse and failure. From the beginning of the play when Macbeth started to act with a strong desire for power, and causing crime, it was a foreshadow to show how what comes around goes around. What are your reactions to this scene?
This scene made me feel disgusted and sorrow at the same time. When Macbeth and Macduff were having a conversation about each of their significance, it was very ironical in the fact that both of them were on the verge of corruption. Due to the fact that this scene is the end of the play, many dilemmas have reached its conclusions. Macbeth, a character with strong evil greed shows how a strong desire for unachievable power leads to a corruption. It kind of freaks me out to see such good-hearted man change evil for wealth and power. For Macduff, I feel sorry for him because even though he killed Macbeth at the end, he will never be able to recover from the death of his family. What does the character want in this scene?
My character Ross, is a messenger for Siward. He notifies Siward about his son's death. This makes Siward terribly depressed, and so Ross tries to make him feel better by saying that 'your son died like a man.' What is your character's motivation for doing what he or she does?
Ross's motivation for telling Siward about his son's death is because Malcolm mentions where Macuff and the noble son is. Furthermore, Siward has to be known for his own son's death. What obstacles stand in his or her way?
Siward's feeling of sorrows that his son died after fighting the war. What happens when your character confronts these obstacles?
Make efforts to calm Siward down and Malcolm steps over and tells Siward that we will all share the sorrow for him. Are there any distinctive elements in your character's way of speaking?
Ross's tone has to show grief, and has to be quiet though out the whole scene. He is announcing some one's death so he has to be careful about his tone of speech. What is your character thinking during the scene?
During the scene, he is thinking about how to make Siward's emotion to feel better after reporting the son passing away.
Act 5 Scene 8
Character - Ross
Reflection
1. Evaluate the performance of your group. What went well? What didn’t go well?
I was not able to be at the day of the performance, but after reading all comments that other people have wrote for us, I believe our group did quite well. Everyone were prepared with their own costumes for their characters, and they knew where to be at the setting. Also, they were reading script very fluently. Things that didn't go well would be that we didn't have much practice times. We weren't able to meet and practice as much. If we did, it could have been better. 2. How well did you contribute to your group?
Frankly, I couldn't contribute that much, because I couldn't make up for the actual performance. However, I still played my part through recording myself with a video and successfully acted as the my character, Ross. 3. How well did you perform as an individual?
As an individual, I could have expressed my sorrow towards Siward's son's death more dramatically. However, I didn't act as excited as much. I was fluent with my lines and I knew what the annotations meant. 4. What could have improved your scene performance?
I could have improve lots of stuff. I could have been more dramatic by expressing my emotion more. Also, if I were actually there at the scene performance with my group members, I could have done much better by sharing emotions with my companions at the scene. 5. How did the scene performance help you better understand the play.
The scene performance helped me to understand the play better, especially the last scene, because not only we had to annotate the lines, but also we had to actually talk as if we were that character we were assigned. Annotating and finding words we don't understand already helped me to get a better understanding about how the play ended. However, talking and expressing the feelings of each character taught me each character's perspective and their opinion.
The basic things that happen in my scene are :
• In the beginning of this scene, Macbeth and Macduff meets.
• Macbeth cannot be killed by a human being, but Macduff can because he was "untimely ripped" from his mother's womb.
• Macbeth and Macduff fights.
• Then Malcom is with Siward and Ross.
• They talk about Siward's sons' death. He died in a noble way, and it makes Siward feel proud of his son.
• Macduff reenters with Macbeth's head. He gives a little speech for Malcom and everyone hails the new king.
• The scene and play ends with Malcom's speech.
What do you think are the key purposes of your scene?
I think that the key purpose of this scene is to bring this Scottish play to an end. In this scene, everything were solved by both main-characters meeting up and fighting. The conclusion came to an end by Macbeth's death. Furthermore, this gives a moral to the reader. Such greed and foolishness brings collapse and failure. From the beginning of the play when Macbeth started to act with a strong desire for power, and causing crime, it was a foreshadow to show how what comes around goes around.
What are your reactions to this scene?
This scene made me feel disgusted and sorrow at the same time. When Macbeth and Macduff were having a conversation about each of their significance, it was very ironical in the fact that both of them were on the verge of corruption. Due to the fact that this scene is the end of the play, many dilemmas have reached its conclusions. Macbeth, a character with strong evil greed shows how a strong desire for unachievable power leads to a corruption. It kind of freaks me out to see such good-hearted man change evil for wealth and power. For Macduff, I feel sorry for him because even though he killed Macbeth at the end, he will never be able to recover from the death of his family.
What does the character want in this scene?
My character Ross, is a messenger for Siward. He notifies Siward about his son's death. This makes Siward terribly depressed, and so Ross tries to make him feel better by saying that 'your son died like a man.'
What is your character's motivation for doing what he or she does?
Ross's motivation for telling Siward about his son's death is because Malcolm mentions where Macuff and the noble son is. Furthermore, Siward has to be known for his own son's death.
What obstacles stand in his or her way?
Siward's feeling of sorrows that his son died after fighting the war.
What happens when your character confronts these obstacles?
Make efforts to calm Siward down and Malcolm steps over and tells Siward that we will all share the sorrow for him.
Are there any distinctive elements in your character's way of speaking?
Ross's tone has to show grief, and has to be quiet though out the whole scene. He is announcing some one's death so he has to be careful about his tone of speech.
What is your character thinking during the scene?
During the scene, he is thinking about how to make Siward's emotion to feel better after reporting the son passing away.
Act 5 Scene 8
Character - Ross
Reflection
1. Evaluate the performance of your group. What went well? What didn’t go well?
I was not able to be at the day of the performance, but after reading all comments that other people have wrote for us, I believe our group did quite well. Everyone were prepared with their own costumes for their characters, and they knew where to be at the setting. Also, they were reading script very fluently. Things that didn't go well would be that we didn't have much practice times. We weren't able to meet and practice as much. If we did, it could have been better.
2. How well did you contribute to your group?
Frankly, I couldn't contribute that much, because I couldn't make up for the actual performance. However, I still played my part through recording myself with a video and successfully acted as the my character, Ross.
3. How well did you perform as an individual?
As an individual, I could have expressed my sorrow towards Siward's son's death more dramatically. However, I didn't act as excited as much. I was fluent with my lines and I knew what the annotations meant.
4. What could have improved your scene performance?
I could have improve lots of stuff. I could have been more dramatic by expressing my emotion more. Also, if I were actually there at the scene performance with my group members, I could have done much better by sharing emotions with my companions at the scene.
5. How did the scene performance help you better understand the play.
The scene performance helped me to understand the play better, especially the last scene, because not only we had to annotate the lines, but also we had to actually talk as if we were that character we were assigned. Annotating and finding words we don't understand already helped me to get a better understanding about how the play ended. However, talking and expressing the feelings of each character taught me each character's perspective and their opinion.